the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision of scientists and their relationship to hersey you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single long nuclear weapon in sunday's arsenal was by university of california. we don't warm gold it's. a little person you californio was selected as the contract because the army needed sciences to leave their first of the positions. a group of protesters interrupted a university of california border regions meeting to demand the school's severed ties with the nation's nuclear weapons program.

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so chancellor yang promised us on monday that you would personally deliver our demands to the u.c. board of regents i just want to read our demands to everyone here briefly so that you all know it's going forward and are. we call on the university of california for the pretense to withdraw fully and immediately from their contracts to manage the los alamos national laboratory and lawrence livermore national laboratory on the grounds that the level replaces no more in a program that some us is ongoing preparations to come back on tony and that manufacturing halt clearly violate article six of the nineteen seventeen nuclear nonproliferation treaty. it's almost inconceivable to realize that there we go through with the worst is over. a minute or so.

university of california from the inception of nuclear weapons has been right there and bob. you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single nuclear weapon in sydney's arsenal was designed by university of california complete every nuclear bomb. from the days of the manhattan project in one nine hundred forty two the university of california has been involved through the scientific provision of scientists and their relationship to the university. in the late one nine hundred forty two disease site which is now also almost lab was selected like yarn for. a place to assemble the first on the wall of the book through the site giving problems associated with. the university

of california who was selected as the contractor to run the stuff that was considered important because our meat needed scientists to meet their diversity positions they had come to a place that the city would know about. u.c. berkeley built up and unparalleled scientific organization within the united states the u.c. radiation laboratory where sternest over warrants was the director of there was the most cutting edge research in the country on the types of science that eventually led to the development of nuclear bombs and clued in theoretical forms of physics that shia robert oppenheimer was one of the premier scientists in the country and regards to you had often heimer who was kind of chosen that. as the scientific

leader lets you go the scientific team robert oppenheimer was their pick because he was not only a really sophisticated lead scientists involved with nuclear physics but he was also an administrative position at u.c. berkeley so he worked closely with leslie groves he was the leader of army corps of engineers at the time. it had been a university involved girls felt that scientists would want to leave the university and go work for a private defense contractor in the middle of does or in the middle of nowhere. and they liked little someone more site in part because there were some buildings already and they figured they could get started in those buildings. so who had these units from moving toward then both the first bombs and the first few. thousand nine hundred forty

five players it states used those first comic. the first one are definitely in here seem. like a six nine hundred forty five. and one hundred forty thousand people more or less were incinerated or dead by the end of nine hundred forty five tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of others injured and people today still suffering from radiation related illnesses and unknown affects to subsequent generations then the second bomb was dropped by the united states and that saturday on august ninth one thousand nine hundred forty five with similar catastrophic results. that world war two tame to an end rather abruptly and instead instead of ending the manhattan project the united states government decided to make it permanent

creating an institution called the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico at the original home of going to happen project but this whole relationship. were mentioned earlier should never existed and the universe and tension but after world war two one hundred forty seven was to terminate it. robert sprawl president of universe of california said i've had enough of new mexico he told me and. they were worried about liability they were worried about the oral implications but that changed quickly after the cold war began. you see it was then primarily researching designing the weapons and after you know it the first decade of the law there really wasn't any question from them then and as i pursued it was the b.b.c. about whether you see should run this or not i mean you talk about a guaranteed stream of revenue so it was

a no brainer for the regions to grab audience contracts and. then of course they were joined by a livermore whose purpose was to develop the h. bomb. which was a thousand times more powerful than the a bomb that destroyed the second want to come to the lawrence livermore national laboratory that was basically the pet project of christ lawrence and it was also a pet project of a guy named edward heller they lobbied the government to create the lawrence livermore laboratory of the government did create the lawrence livermore national laboratory it's the u.c. naturally became manager of that facility to. what was clear at that time and it's still there are three kids that are major reasons why the a couple of major reasons why they. did want to keep on the one hand they got a certain amount of money directly from allegedly better join the labs in fact they

did very little. oversight but for lending their name to the peer pressure to interest basically why the government wanted. to give a white coated scientific. or to what is actually a process right there of the final solution of the girls. in order to render any reason right. this process they go. the money flowed on this got seven trillion dollars of us since we matured some truly. sort of money you get the kind of money floating around there's a lot of people at the trough that are trying to keep a good position they're out to create a powerful universities as university administrators their goal is growth it's just a corporation grow get bigger get more powerful bring in more revenue bring in more students and leave it the readers see this as a success most of them as

a successful business feel that is helping american national security. and that is you know just part of the national and patriotic project right thinking people with national support. you see is run by the board meets these twenty six individuals it's sort of all of the major policies that you know the structure of the institution as a whole that's grounds and buildings i know its emissions policies. and of course the nuclear weapons laboratories. eighteen of them are appointed by the governor and and seven of them are ex official members of the state bureaucracy that are outside us profile members of the board of regents the governor selects

the regents and he tends to select guys or every once in while women too but mostly guys who are big campaign contributors or who are allies politically influential allies. of the governor ever since tuesday was founded one hundred forty years ago the regions have been appointed by the governor primarily on the basis of political patronage corporate elites who have given tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to the governor and his political campaigns usually get rewarded with a seat on the border regions. and essentially at that appointment as regent as then sort of. a reward a few well for a service to the governor service of the state. you see regents are basically the economic leaders of the state of california these

big guys who are the directors most often of the major industries that are probably california in a given time. regions are in most cases the wealthy business elites who are in some he's a c.e.o. of a major war profiteering multinational corporations. you see a lot of regents who are in charge of big media companies military industrial firms real estate for arms is really like a circle that at the top they come up dominates the. dolan's on the service generally composed of the. chair of the regions in the past chair the president if you need second officers. the current chair of the board of regents is richard

bloom. richard lum is someone who i see as a very conflicted individual on one hand he has a free tibet bumper sticker on the back of his b.m.w. he has said on several occasions that he is a passionate advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons on the other hand he was deeply invested in the your ass corporation and primi corporation both of whom received construction contracts to rebuild iraq after us imperial forces leveled that country on the other hand richard long as the chairman of the board of regents who was managing the national nuclear weapons labs a lot of business connections get a man for example arnold schwarzenegger's personal financier paul walker who is second only to his wife in terms of people who have influence and sway over governor schwarzenegger and paul walk there is and you see regent it's that sort of

connection that gets people pointed and you say region. the large body of people at the university are reaching out to the region set asking them and trying to get them to understand some of the problems of the university fundamentally and the at the regions they if they don't listen i sense a sort of our rank and file people on the ground at the university they don't represent the students the faculty the staff they don't actually represent their constituencies and the question is can the regions have the courage and the insight to recognise that the best thing if they truly care about how to listen nuclear weapons is to end their management of the weapons right now they have been i think there's a little bit of denial there they don't see that and the question is can we persuade them of that long term. in universities and not be affected by people who is it is a democratic institution it has to be worked through back

channel bureaucratic methods which is how it normally operates or through public pressure. i was thinking thank you was the kid all right none of us who pay for our fare i don't see how do you think the primary ever planned community. on the basis of somehow thinks i was. really. was not going to hear about it. was releasing the old fries thing you see and campaigns like you scenically are free and together and the early part of the two thousand and send especially leading up to the iraq war when we started the campaign we believe that if students

found out about this that they knew more about it if they understood that their university was involved with making nuclear weapons the most dangerous and destructive weapons ever created by humans that the students would want to respond to that that they would want to react to that and protest it i decided to get involved in the u.c. nuclear free campaign because i feel very passionately that universities should educate and work for peace and justice sustainability in the commonwealth and in managing nuclear weapon labs the exact opposite. that i try not to get involved in anything that i don't think i can have an impact and i feel it has let me use the student because i'm you know essentially a part of this machine. that i have the power to stand up and say it was every part of this machine i'm not ok with the way business is running. battle.

was a move made you need someone to sort of work against. and that incredible unfairness of the u.c. regents is the perfect target per broad based student. social group. in the main it sounds like our ultimate goal is just to make the senior player free but everyone has been involved with the u.c. nuclear. as a nuclear movement with and you see. i've yet to meet one person who thinks that's the actual goal. we all tend to agree that the actual goal is the abolition of nuclear weapons the university of california severing ties with the nuclear weapons labs i think would have a very a very important impact on the united states and beyond the united

states social change movements in the united states and around the world in the least in modern times have almost always been led by. so young people. then students have a significant role to play in this way students have been the backbone of some of the most powerful movements in america the story of the civil rights movement the free speech movement these are forces of history that we learn about now and i think that students have just as much power as they did. and it's research that hour when we choose to. choose something that is as important as this it gets we need to stop using the nuclear weapon. as a possible war strategy and we're going to start by divesting this educational institution that's supposed to further a supposed to further this country's with the further the state supposed to further

every single one of us we divest that institution from nuclear weapons we need to completely make the split the students could be the spirit of the campaign for u.s. leadership for a nuclear weapons free world we're not going to get to a nuclear weapons free world without u.s. leadership and we're not going to get u.s. leadership unless the citizens of the. begin to demand such leadership and wouldn't it be wonderful if the students at the university of california awakened and helped lead that movement for u.s. leadership for nuclear weapons free world. if you look at just how much the movement has grown in my four in the four years that i went to school and it's really amazing looking back because my freshman year

is really we started out and there were like five of us on campus like what was going on with the university and it seemed almost like just like when i was a club that i had this amazing secret and we just leave here on campus and look at each other and go. you know. illuminati.